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Who owns your block

800 block of W Somerset St

A mostly owner-occupied block: 74% of homes are lived in by their owners, with 1 open code violation and 4 homes behind $9,769 on taxes.

The typical home here is up 77% since 2016, now about $87K. Property taxes are climbing about 2% a year and the increases are speeding up.

Every parcel on the block, colored by who owns it. Tap a parcel for the owner and its city record.

By the Numbers

Median value
$87K
$15K–$176K
ZIP median $83K
Price / sq ft
$67
typical home
city median $177
Vs. Philadelphia
0.4×
the city median
city $223K
Tax / yr
$1K
typical · up to $2K
city ≈$3K/yr
Tax abatements
8 of 19
$10K/yr forgone
Owner-occupied
74%
14 of 19
city 41%
Rentals
0%
0 licensed
city 15% of homes
Open violations
1
L&I code
▲ block 5% · city 5%
Back taxes
$10K
4 of 19 behind
▲ block 21% · city 9%
Zoning appeals
1
1 home · ZBA & boards
block 5% · city 5%

How fast it's moving

1 year
+0%
value · tax +$9
5 years
+114%
value · tax +$65
10 years
+77%
value · tax −$54

Assessed-value change for the typical home. Philadelphia taxes a flat 1.3998% of value, so the bill moves with it.

The makeup of the block

Every home, plotted by size and assessed value — press play and watch the block reprice from 2016 to 2027. One bubble per house (area = lot size), colored by who owns it; a gold ring marks tax-abated new construction. Click a bubble for its report.

2027
  • Owner-occupied
  • Investor / LLC
  • Absentee
  • Vacant
  • Tax-abated
  • Bubble = lot size
  • → bigger interior  ·  ↑ higher value

Assessed values from the city's year-by-year assessment record — a proxy for price, lumpy in reassessment years.

How the block compares

The typical home here is $87K — about 0.4× the citywide median, and above the ZIP 19133 median of $83K. The same block, read against everyone else in the ZIP 19133 and across Philadelphia.

This blockZIP 19133Philadelphia
Median home value$87K$83K$223K
Owner-occupied21%18%41%

Safety & quality of life

Within 200 metres of the block over the last 12 months: 190 reported crimes (69 violent) and 198 resident 311 requests to the city.

Crimes · 12mo
190
69 violent · within 200m
311 requests · 12mo
198
42 still open

Most reported crimes

Thefts50
Other Assaults43
All Other Offenses21
Vandalism/Criminal Mischief14
Aggravated Assault No Firearm10
Fraud8

Top 311 complaints

Maintenance Complaint37
Rubbish/Recyclable Material Collection32
Illegal Dumping30
Street Defect22
Sanitation Violation14
Abandoned Vehicle12

Philadelphia Police incident reports and 311 service requests within 200m, trailing 12 months. Reported location, not necessarily where an incident occurred.

Schools

The public schools this block is zoned for — its official School District of Philadelphia catchments.

Elementary & Middle · K-8
Julia Deburgos
401 W Lehigh Ave · 512 students
High · 9-12
Thomas A Edison
151 W Luzerne St · 1022 students

Catchment assignments from the School District of Philadelphia via City of Philadelphia open data. Confirm with the District before enrollment decisions.

What it's worth, and where taxes are going

Median assessed value · 2016–2027

$0$50K$100K$87K2016: $49K2017: $49K2018: $49K2019: $53K2020: $41K2021: $41K2022: $41K2023: $76K2024: $76K2025: $87K2026: $87K2027: $87K2016202020232027

▲ +77% since 2016

Estimated property tax · per home, per year

$0$250$500$2112016: $2652017: $2652018: $2652019: $1832020: $1462021: $1462022: $1462023: $1432024: $1432025: $2022026: $2022027: $2112016202020232027

▼ -20% since 2016 · ~-2%/yr

8
8 properties on this block carry a tax abatement or major exemption. New construction and gut rehabs get the improvement value exempted for up to 10 years, so their tax bills sit far below their real value — block-wide, exemptions keep about $10,164 a year off the tax roll. Read the tax figures with that in mind.

Who really pays — effective tax rate, one dot per home

1.40% — the statutory rate0%0.4%0.8%1.2%
$143pays now $1,643at the full rate

806 W Somerset St is assessed at $117K but pays $143 a year — about 9% of the $1,643 it would owe at the statutory rate, because its new-construction value is abated.

The block as an asset

Read like a financial asset, this block has lagged the Philadelphia market, compounding +5.3% a year against the city's 6.5%.

Indexed performance · this block vs. the Philadelphia market

8310025020162019202220252027This block 177 Philadelphia 201

Rebased to 100 in 2016, like a stock against its index. $100 in the typical home here would be worth $177 today versus $201 across Philadelphia — this block trailed the market.

Annualized return
+5.3%/yr
price, since 2016
Total appreciation
+77%
since 2016
Net rental yield
est., after tax carry
Total return
+5.3%/yr
price + net rent
Real return
+2.3%/yr
after ~3% inflation
vs. Philadelphia
-1.2 pts
market 6.5%/yr

Return is from assessed-value history (a proxy for market price, lumpy in reassessment years); rental yield is estimated from ACS area rents. Informational only, not investment advice.

How often it changes hands

This block has recorded 11 arm's-length sales since 2001. The typical home has sold 0 times in that window, while 11 have not changed hands at all.

Every recorded sale · price & date

$0$125K$250K2005201020152020
11arm's-length sales since 2001
0times the typical home has sold
3most sales for a single property
11homes never sold in the window

Who owns it

Ownership of 19 parcels

Owner-occupied: 14Investor / LLC: 1Absentee individual: 2Vacant: 2 19parcels
  • Owner-occupied 14
  • Investor / LLC 1
  • Absentee individual 2
  • Vacant 2

Value distribution today

1 parcels1 parcels1 parcels2 parcels6 parcels4 parcels4 parcels
$15K$117K+
OwnerOn blockOwns citywidePortfolio valueSource
Locksmith Philadelphia Penn Inc11$60Kphila.gov ↗

House by house

All 19 homes on the block — value and 12-year trajectory, ownership, and the paper trail on the ones that were bought, built, torn down, or flipped. Sorted up the street; each links to its full city record — or download the roster (CSV).

Every house's assessed value, 2016–2027 — each line is one home

$0$100K$200K201620182020202220242026Block median
Each houseNew build / flipBlock median

Worth a look

AddressOwnershipValue & trendBd/BaSq ftBuiltSalesFlags
800 W SOMERSET ST built new under a 2026 permit (tax-abated). Owner-occupied $85K —/— 2,416 1930 0 abated1 viol
801 W SOMERSET ST built new (tax-abated), sold for $141K in 2022. Owner-occupied $115K 4/1 1,600 1920 1 abated
802 W SOMERSET ST Owner-occupied $43K —/— 1,225 1930 0 abated
803 W SOMERSET ST Traded 2×: $249K in 2004 → $5K in 2004 (-98%). Owner-occupied $100K 3/1 1,500 1920 2
804 W SOMERSET ST Appeal dismissed (2014); sold $27K (2020). Owner-occupied $117K —/— 1,224 1915 1
805 W SOMERSET ST Owner-occupied $100K 3/1 1,500 1920 0
806 W SOMERSET ST built new (tax-abated), sold for $5K in 2001. Owner-occupied $117K —/— 1,224 1915 1 abated
807 W SOMERSET ST Owner-occupied $100K 3/1 1,500 1920 0 tax lien
808 W SOMERSET ST Traded 3×: $11K in 2012 → $113K in 2018 (+927%). Absentee individual $176K —/— 1,224 1915 3
809 W SOMERSET ST Owner-occupied $100K 3/1 1,500 1920 0 tax lien
810 W SOMERSET ST built new under a 2024 permit (tax-abated), sold for $120K in 2022. Investor / LLC $60K —/— 2,856 1910 1 abated
811 W SOMERSET ST Vacant $15K —/— 0
812 W SOMERSET ST Absentee individual $75K —/— 1,540 1920 1 tax lien
814 W SOMERSET ST Owner-occupied $87K 3/1 1,260 1920 0 tax lien
816 W SOMERSET ST built new (tax-abated), sold for $2K in 2001. Owner-occupied $87K 3/1 1,260 1920 1 abatedtax lien
818 W SOMERSET ST Owner-occupied $87K 3/1 1,260 1920 0 abated
820 W SOMERSET ST Owner-occupied $67K 3/1 1,260 1920 0 abated
822 W SOMERSET ST Owner-occupied $87K 3/1 1,260 1920 0
824 W SOMERSET ST Vacant $57K —/— 0

Neighborhood

Neighborhood income and demographics are coming soon.

Generated 2026-07-08 from public City of Philadelphia records  ·  Download this block's data (CSV)

Where this comes from

City datasets are fetched live from OpenDataPhilly (phl.carto.com) and cached briefly. AI-written passages are generated from these records only and rejected if they state a number the record doesn't hold.